2009 Iowa Code
Title 12 - Business Entities
Subtitle 2 - Business and Professional Corporations and Companies
CHAPTER 490 - BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
490.123 - EFFECTIVE TIME AND DATE OF DOCUMENTS.

        490.123  EFFECTIVE TIME AND DATE OF DOCUMENTS.
         1.  Except as provided in subsection 2 and section 490.124,
      subsection 3, a document accepted for filing is effective at the
      later of the following times:
         a.  At the date and time of filing, as evidenced by such means
      as the secretary of state may use for the purpose of recording the
      date and time of filing.
         b.  At the time specified in the document as its effective
      time on the date it is filed.
         2.  A document may specify a delayed effective time and date, and
      if it does so the document becomes effective at the time and date
      specified.  If a delayed effective date but no time is specified, the
      document is effective at the close of business on that date.  A
      delayed effective date for a document shall not be later than the
      ninetieth day after the date it is filed.  

         89 Acts, ch 288, §6; 2002 Acts, ch 1154, §3, 125
         Referred to in § 490.1622